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Chapter 18, Sections 1 & 2. World War I. -Nationalism a.) new nations form (Italy & Germany-1870s ) b.) competition for power -Imperialism -Militarism - Schlieffen Plan -rifles v. machine guns -Alliances. Causes of War. France. Italy. Germany. Serbia. Russia. England.
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Chapter 18, Sections 1 & 2 World War I
-Nationalism a.) new nations form (Italy & Germany-1870s) b.) competition for power -Imperialism -Militarism -SchlieffenPlan -rifles v. machine guns -Alliances Causes of War
France Italy Germany Serbia Russia England Austria-Hungary
-a plan to prevent a war for Germany on two separate fronts Assumed: -Russia would take at least 6 weeks to mobilize -France would be easily defeated in 6 weeks -Belgium would not resist any German attack -Britain would remain neutral Schlieffen plan
Triple AllianceTriple Entente -Germany -France -Austria-Hungary -Russia -Italy -Great Britain Pre-War Alliances -To decrease chances of war -balance of power
GavriloPrincip Archduke Ferdinand
Central PowersAllied Powers -Germany -France -Austria-Hungary -Russia -Ottoman Empire -England -Italy!!! WWI Alliances
-Schlieffen Plan -Aug. 4, 1914- attacks neutral country of Belgium in order to get to France -Great Britain declares war on Germany -new kind of warfare Germany attacks
-Germans were 25 miles from Paris -French counterattack along Marne River- Sept. 7, 1914 -French push the Germans back 40 miles -5 days; 250,000 lives lost The 1st Battle of the marne
-trench warfare -no-man’s land -p.587 -life in the trenches Stalemate in the war
-needed to end stalemate -Germans: chemical warfare -English & French follow New weapons
-Tanks -Artillery -Airplanes -trench warfare continues! New Weapons
-isolationism -but leaned toward the Allied Cause -Woodrow Wilson America as isolationists
-Unrestricted warfare -Sussex -Sussex Pledge German U-boats
-Wilson re-elected -”peace without victory” -Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare -U.S. ends diplomatic relations with Germany Peace W/o victory
-called for an alliance between Mexico and Germany -goal was to tie up American forces in the Western Hemisphere -intercepted/decoded by British -Wilson refuses to wage war Zimmerman note
-March 1917- German U-boats sink 3 American merchant vessels -America declares war on Germany on April 6, 1917 Final breaking point